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...Musset: "Comedies et Proverbes," "Oeuvres Posthumes," "Prenieres Poesies," "Nouvelles Poesies," "Melanges." "Crutes." "Confe-sion d'su Enfant du Siecle," Alexander Dumas' "Lavie, sontemps, son Oeuvre," by Henri Blage de Bury, a work of great interest. "Eloquence Politique et Parlementaire en France avant, 1789," by C. Aubertin. Correspondence de Balzac, and the Poesies Completes de Bertran de Born...
...lecture at the meeting of Conference Francaise last evening was Balzac and his friends...
...lighter literature has come from Paris - for instance, the kind of short stories that seems to be the prevailing type of American writing now, is, I think, almost altogether a graft from French stock, such writings as Zola's "Contes a Nanon," Guyde Maupassant's somewhat vile anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first novelist who could dissect a woman. Defoe tried to analyze a woman of the lower grade in Roxana, and Peregrine Pickle is such another monument of failure...
...again, if we may trust the statements of such as Zola, Daudet, Balzac and Theophile Gautier - men who have been through the mill - the Bohemia whence they started is a hotbed...
...point. A very amusing story, "Aloft on the Dorothy Bell," comes next, and then a selection of Daily Themes. "At Night-Time" is a somewhat dog gerel rendering of a German poem. Next is an essay on "Count Tolstoi and Modern Realism," in which the writer, after saying that Balzac tried to crush the life out of French prose - Balzac, the one man to me who can understand and describe the emotions of a woman - that the French revolution "overthrew in one vast ruin Church, State and literature," in which latter word seems to be included not only Montesquieu, Voltaire...